About Jessica Clark

NBN Episodes hosted by Jessica:

Sally Holloway, "The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture" (Oxford UP, 2019)

December 3, 2019

The Game of Love in Georgian England

Sally Holloway
Hosted by Jessica Clark

What was the role of love and courtship in eighteenth-century English culture? In her new book, The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emoti…

Charlotte Greenhalgh, "Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain" (U California Press, 2018)

October 9, 2018

Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain

Charlotte Greenhalgh
Hosted by Jessica Clark

What role did elderly Britons have in shaping the twentieth-century welfare state? In her new book, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain (University of …

Sumita Mukherjee, "Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks" (Oxford UP, 2018)

June 26, 2018

Indian Suffragettes

Sumita Mukherjee
Hosted by Jessica Clark

In her new book, Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks(Oxford University Press, 2018), Sumita Mukherjee highlights the cen…

Aidan Forth, "Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903" (U California Press, 2017)

April 24, 2018

Barbed-Wire Imperialism

Aidan Forth
Hosted by Jessica Clark

In his new book, Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 (University of California Press, 2017), Aidan Forth employs a comparati…

Carolyn Day, "Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease" (Bloomsbury, 2017)

April 10, 2018

Consumptive Chic

Carolyn Day
Hosted by Jessica Clark

In her new book, Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease (Bloomsbury, 2017), Carolyn Day tracks the relationship between dress, ap…